• dirigibles@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Come on dude, there is no left and right. It’s just us. Kirk had opinions that many of us didn’t like, that’s fine. We can all still muster some empathy for the guy and his family. No one deserves to get get shot for expressing opinions, even bad one opinions.

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      Fuck you… “Can’t we all just get along?” NO and it was people like Kirk that caused that. He hated people like me and my friends. Why should we on the left offer them the courtesy that they never offer to us?!

      Whenever a leftist was a victim of violence they crowed victory and celebrated.

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        Celebrating the death of anyone is a terrible president. I’m sorry to hear that you have been discriminated against, but again this left/right divide doesn’t exist and nothing good will come out of insisting that it does. It’s just us, and yes, we all have to figure out how to get along. The alternative is much, much more grim.

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          Fuck off with your saccharin sweet words where you tell us to that you care that we’re just saying we’re discriminated against no you don’t. You can act like you do but it’s all bullshit placation to get people like me to lie down and take it while they put people into literal concentration camps.

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      I’m sorry what? Fuck off with this bullshit. Kirk and his far right friends are stripping my, and all other queer people’s right, hunting down anyone that looks Mexican or speaks Spanish and deporting them, or worse. There are fucking concentration camps being built. There absolutely is a left and right.

      Yeah, I would have preferred he learn the error of his ways and change his mind to become a decent person. but either way, he can no longer spread his hate, and I’m not complaining about that.

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        I wouldn’t contextualize it as such, but I will agree with you that the deportations have not been handled well.

        Sincerely, I’d like to know what queer rights have been stripped. I don’t have my fingers on the pulse of all the various policy changes that have been going on, so I am genuinely curious.

        I challenge you to go out and talk to your friends and family. Ask them if they consider themselves left wing or right wing. And then have them define what left wing or right wing means to them. I guarantee you you will not get the same answer twice.

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          As a trans person, I can’t go to the bathroom aligning with my gender in some states, and going to the other bathroom can get my assaulted or worse. Trump made getting a passport with my correct gender marker tricky, if not impossible. Trans minors can’t receive any healthcare related to being trans. They have already been talking about repealing the right for same sex marriage. just the other day some right wing lunatic was talking about detaining all trans people and “studying” us, but you that just means torture and killing us. (That last one was some nobody, but it still somehow made news and was posted on Lemmy.)

          It’s happening right in front of you, open you eyes.

          I don’t need to talk with my friends and family about their political beliefs, we do that regularly. I know where my friends and family stand. Some of them are not as far left as I am, but everyone I regularly choose to spend time with hates what’s happening now.

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              Fucking liberals.

              You act like nothing is happening and you will “study” more on the subject. You are disingenuous at best and probably a fascist apologist at worst.

              Sadly, people like you pretend that nothing is happening when you know deep in your heart that Human Beings are being legislated against and dehumanized.

              I used to believe liberals were good people now I think they are just as evil as fascists but in an oblivious kind of way.

              Malcom X was 100% right about white liberals.

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                Wow, you’re making all sorts of assumptions here. Are you a troll or a bot?

                If you are an actual person, please read more Malcom X, don’t just cherry pick the quotes you like. He was a great thinker and had a complex view of the world that changed over time.

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                  Again you speak like you know it all but have no clue just like a pathetic liberal would do. You are the wolf that Malcom X was talking about. Keep supporting fascism.

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        And that is why he deserved what he got. If you can’t silence these dangerous types of people by legal means, all that’s left is vigilante justice.
        There’s a reason drug cartels resolve their issues with violence: the legal system doesn’t work for them.

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            I’m not the state so I’m not bound to free speech amendments.
            I see hate speech and I want it silenced - simple as that.

            People who abuse the idea of free speech to advocate for robbing others of their basic human rights play a stupid game and may win stupid prizes; even if those prizes aren’t dealt out by the state.

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              I’m not sure what you mean by ‘not being bound to free speech’. It’s the law of the land and kind of an important one.

              I’m curious, in your world view, who decides what is hate speech and what would you do if you disagreed with them?

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                You don’t understand what freedom of speech is. You have zero understanding of how anything works apparently. Typical liberal.

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                  I wouldn’t classify myself as a liberal, nor do I know what I said to lead you down that path. Either way, I’m here to exchange ideas. What am I misunderstanding about free speech?

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                The first amendment is prohibiting the government from restricting free speech.
                I, as an individual, can want to restrict speech of racist assholes as much as I feel the need to.
                I am who decides what is hate speech as much as hate preachers decide spewing their bullshit is ok.
                Why should I play by different rules?

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            I mean, cool… But it’s still true. His words and actions were a direct call to arms for countless young people who were looking for direction (and found it in violent fascist rhetoric).

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              Ok, so your initial claim was ‘Stochastic terrorism’. Essentially saying that he was using coded language to hide his calls to violence. Now you’re saying his words and actions were direct call to violence? Which case are you trying to make here? If he made direct calls for violence, he should have been arrested and charged with inciting violence. The laws are quite clear on this one.